The Call To Greatness
“What’s the grand plan behind the In-sighting coaching conversations? Will they take me somewhere or is it like counselling?” This message came into my inbox today following the previous article, here.
In this article, I want to share a new paradigm for actualizing greatness in yourself and your clients, regardless of your modality of therapy.
Have you ever awoken in the middle of the night feeling restless, your thoughts galloping like it's Derby day?
Deep down you want more. You know there’s something better, it’s just beyond your reach. There is a feeling that when you get it you’ll be fulfilled. But how exactly will you get there? What will happen when you get there? What exactly is ‘there’ anyway?
Perhaps at the back of your mind, there is a dread of finding out there’s nothing there. That one day you’ll wake up to the cold fact that it was all fake - a circus act - the lot of it!
For many of us, day to day life can feel like a constant battle between reaching for the stars and resisting the gravitational pull of despair. We put on a brave face to the world - for the kids, for the people we work with, our family. Meanwhile, behind that perfected social mask, we’re weighed down with doubt, fear and anxiety. Is there any good news?
Well, what if all this angst is really a call to greatness?
The Call to Greatness
There is an innate, goal-orientated impulse that urges humans towards the fullest expression of our potential. The Ancient Greek word, Entelechy, ἐντελέχεια (entelékheia), closely fits this imperative. It has two parts:
entelḗs - “complete, finished, perfect”
télos - “end, fruition, accomplishment” + ἔχω ékhō, “to have”
For instance, the tiny acorn already has the potential to become a mighty oak tree. The oak is the actualized entelechy of the acorn.
The potential for greatness, our entelechy, is already embedded at the moment of conception. That is our conception also contains our destiny.
The consciousness that entered at the moment of conception - the point of sperm and egg fusing - already has an inbuilt trajectory towards wholeness and completion. The various challenges that come with having an embodied life are the very conditions for us to unfold towards the fullest expression of our potential - if we understand it.
Whatever we want to achieve - from the very simple to the most remarkable - is the imperative to fully express that innate greatness. When we’re aligned with that imperative, there is a visceral feeling of excitement, hope and possibility. There is a sense of harmony and ease, of ‘being at one with’. When we’re not aligned, there is a feeling of disharmony, dis-ease, and a sense of ‘being out of sorts with’.
In short, the quality of feeling or energy vibration that we inhabit determines what we create in our life.
Looked at this way, problems, dis-ease or sickness ensue when the vital force of entelechy is in any way obstructed, neglected or crushed. These problems show up in various ways at the physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual levels of our being.
Learning to understand the message encoded in signs and symptoms will guide us to the blocks to our entelechy. These are areas where we resist the expression of our potential. Within the difficulties we encounter, there is a call for each of us to awaken to this innate creative power. Within the dirt of our personal pain and suffering lie the diamond of greatness, if we can learn to transform it. How? Let’s start by looking at the awesome power of the mind to create experiences and things.
How we Create Things
Everything that is created is first imagined in our mind’s eye. This vision is brought into form through the power of thought.
Just take that in for a moment - everything is created by the mind - first in the imagination, then brought into form through thought.
The device you’re reading on first started in an inventor’s imagination. That idea was shared with the mind of others through thought. And through the collective focus of thought, a prototype of this device was created spawning the manufacture of many more. All that through the power of thought.
We are a tiny reflection, an expression, of this limitless creative force of mind. This in no way implies that we are limited.
Just as a glass of sea water contains the essence of the ocean, we too are a reflection of the infinite ocean of consciousness. Fresh new ideas flow constantly to us from this ocean of consciousness. These may appear as an idea, an image, a dream, a bright idea, an inspiration. The power of thought is the force of creation making itself known to us. How?
Thoughts have a quality of feeling or vibration
This vibration is detected throughout the entire energetic matrix that constitutes our physical body. Our body is a receptor for vibrations of thought - a felt sense. When we learn to discern between the various qualities of these thought vibrations, the felt sense, we can be guided to create the life we want and stop resisting the creative imperative.
This felt sense is often localized as a ‘gut feeling’ - an inner sense of knowing.
Accomplishing this clarity of purpose and receptivity from the ocean of ‘divine’ consciousness is the real goal of authentic healing. What is implied here is that the essence of healing is to discover the blocks to entelechy within the presenting signs and symptoms of dis-ease. What are the implications for us?
As practitioners, regardless of the modality, we can hold our clients fully capable and able to respond to the call to greatness. We can help them to recognise and clear any blockages to that being so. We also remind them that they’re here to permit the unique expression of their greatness, not resist it.
As individuals, we can discover, either ourselves or with the help of a practitioner - where we resist the fullest expression of our potential. We can find authentic ways to permit this unfolding. We can also remember that we’re here to permit the unique expression of this greatness, not resist it.
We shall continue to explore the implications of this new paradigm to our health, relationships and thriving in future articles.
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